Improvement in varnishing compounds for carriage-tops



Uurrun STATES TENT "I FFIGE.

J OHN TOYVNSEND, OF DARBY, PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,582, dated March17, 1374; application filed September 5, 1873.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN TOWNSEND, of Darby, Delaware county,Pennsylvania, have invented a Polishing Composition for Oarria ge- Tops,&c., of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to polish or enamel carriage-tops,harness, leather, 850., and to prevent the same from cracking; and thisobject I accomplish by the use of a composition composed ofcarriage-varnish, neats-foot oil, ivory black, and japan, mixed in aboutthe following proportions: Carriage-varnish, three quarts; neats-footoil, one pint; ivory drop black, one-half pint; japan, one-half pint.The ivory drop black, in the form of a powder, is ground in aboutone-half pint of neats-foot oil, and the product is then mixed with theother ingredients, no heat being applied, and the only requisite beingthat the whole shall be thoroughly agitated or stirred, so as to producean intimate mixture of all the ingredients. The composition is thenready for use, and

-for carriage-tops, &c., composed of varnish,

neatst'oot oil, ivory black, and japan, mixed substantially as and inabout the proportions specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witncsses.

JOHN TOWNSEND. \Vitnesses M. A. STEEL, HUBERT HowsoN.

